OPTrust Career Opportunities

Paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow.

With net assets of almost $20 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada's largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan, a defined benefit plan with almost 95,000 members and retirees.

Vice President, Human Resources

Human Resources
Permanent

Reporting into the Chief Pension Officer and Senior Vice President of Human Resources, this role is responsible for the development and implementation of the OPTrust people strategy as well as functional and strategic leadership to the organization on all matters relating to people. While leading a team of 13 Human Resources practitioners, this position is responsible for all aspects of the Human Resources function including Labour and Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Acquisition and closely partnering with our business lines to ensure we support success.

Responsibilities:

Develop and implement HR strategies, policies and programs and ensure alignment to corporate business plans

Provide leadership to the HR team on all aspects of HR including Labour and Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Acquisition and more including managing 4 direct reports

Leverage human capital best practices where possible on all aspects of HR function

Responsible for working with senior business leaders on budget and resource planning for their teams as well as the HR team

Maintain a strong level of business acumen in order to align HR strategies, policies and programs to ensure success

Build strong relationships with business leaders to help drive and influence adoption to new and existing programs, culture initiatives and other change management exercises

Build a strong data driven environment, both within HR team and the organization, where we measure what we do and leverage this data to make sound decisions on programs, policies and practices going forward

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in related field, Masters degree in related discipline would be considered an asset

15 years related HR experience plus a minimum of 5 years in a senior HR leadership capacity

CHRE, CHRL or any other relevant HR accreditation is required

Experience working in Unionized environment

Experience in Financial Services is an asset

Experience leading HR teams with multiple disciplines is an asset

Superior interpersonal, coaching, communication and presentation skills necessary as is the ability to influence all levels of the organization to make sound and defensible people related business decisions

Demonstrated ability to build and maintain productive working relationships with Union partners, to support organizational interests and successfully navigate through employee issues successfully

Experience leading collective bargaining is highly preferred

Experience leading an HR team including Labour and Employee Relations and Total Rewards (Compensation and Benefits)

Demonstrated success in leading, enabling and inspiring a team to be high performing and client focused all while ensuring a supportive, healthy and respectful workplace with strong team cohesion and productivity